VOL. 22 ISSUE NO. 14 | April 6, 2016

By Linda Bentley | april 6, 2016

Jankowski squeaks through 4-3 split council vote with one-year contract

CAVE CREEK – Call to the Public brought Bill Allen to the podium to advise council Tony Geiger was now chair of the Water Advisory Committee and Betsy Wise was vice chair. He also said there were two or three people who have come forward with interest in serving on the committee that will be brought to council for consideration.

By Linda Bentley | april 6, 2016

CAREFREE – With no one wishing to speak during Call to the Public and no updates for Current Events, Mayor Les Peterson began Tuesday night’s meeting by announcing all the members of council signed their acknowledgement of the recently passed Code of Conduct ordinance and said copies are retained on file with the town clerk.

By Linda Bentley | april 6, 2016

CAVE CREEK – A motorcyclist identified as Scott Edwards Jr., 36, of Glendale was transported to Honor Health Deer Valley Hospital on Sunday with life-threatening injuries, and where he was later pronounced dead, following an accident at the intersection of Cave Creek and School House roads.

By Linda Bentley | april 6, 2016

One cannot be considered both ‘naturalized’ and ‘natural born’

BROWNSVILLE, Texas – On March 10, Attorney Stephen Pidgeon, lead counsel for the North American Law Center sent a letter to Texas Secretary of State Carlos H. Cascos on behalf of a legal citizen and voter in Texas, as well as in the public interest of the nation, questioning if, when Cruz ran for, was elected and certified by the Texas Secretary of State as the new U.S. Senator representing the people of Texas, he was a legal citizen of Canada.

By Linda Bentley | april 6, 2016

PHOENIX – Last week Gov. Doug Ducey signed HB 2451, pertaining to the release of prisoners with deportation orders, into law.

HB 2451 repeals A.R.S. § 41-1604.14, which allowed the director of the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) to release certain prisoners to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after serving only half of their sentences, providing they were convicted of a lower level class 3, 4, 5 or 6 felony, not convicted of a homicide related or sexual assault offense, and not a repeat or dangerous offender.

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On the night of March 28 a failed smuggling attempt resulted in the tragic death of two in an attempt to evade law enforcement.

At approximately 7:45, Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents observed a group of suspected illegal immigrants exiting a desert area and running to a vehicle parked in a gas station parking lot near Andrade, California. The suspects entered the vehicle and fled the area. The suspect vehicle subsequently collided with a semi-truck on Interstate 8, causing injury to four individuals and two fatalities. The driver of the semi-truck was not injured. The alleged driver of the vehicle, a 30 year-old U.S. citizen, is currently under investigation for alien smuggling.

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TUCSON – Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a Mexican national during the Easter weekend who had been deported after serving 11 years in prison for his involvement in a drive-by shooting in Tucson in 2001.

april 6, 2016

TUCSON – Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents, acting on information provided by Mexican authorities Monday, investigated a cross-border tunnel that extends approximately 30 feet into the United States east of the Morley Port of Entry in Nogales, Arizona.

april 6, 2016

Making Home Affordable program to sunset

Springboard Nonprofit Consumer Credit Management, Inc. (“Springboard”) announced today that help is available for struggling homeowners in Arizona at no cost thanks to grant funding from the National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling (“NFMC”) Program.

Because 2016 marks the final year for the federally-funded Making Home Affordable (“MHA”) programs, this opportunity addresses an urgent need to connect homeowners with these valuable relief programs before time runs out. To be considered for assistance through MHA, a complete initial package must be submitted on or before December 30, 2016.

By Tim Castro and Jacqueline Salit | april 6, 2016

What occurred in the Arizona presidential preference election was another black eye on the state of politics in Arizona. The exclusion of Arizona’s 1.2 million Independent voters is a systemic form of voter suppression and undemocratic in the extreme. We note Governor Ducey's remarks calling for an opening of the presidential primaries to Independents, however, it appears to be politically convenient that he waited until after the election.

april 6, 2016

Biomedical engineering researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a technique that uses a patch embedded with microneedles to deliver cancer immunotherapy treatment directly to the site of melanoma skin cancer. In animal studies, the technique more effectively targeted melanoma than other immunotherapy treatments.

april 6, 2016

Schools appear to have decided history is unimportant

WASHINGTON, DC – Louise Mirrer, President and CEO of the New-York Historical Society, is focused on the history deficit among American students.

"American history is no longer required in many high schools throughout the country. This means that large numbers of Americans graduate without even the most basic sense of what it means to be an American. That is a huge deficit."